Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS

Automounting usb drives is udev
I've a GoFlexNet that runs Slackware Arm that I like to use as NAS (nice to be able to do software raid with the 2 sata drives). Along with having an array I also wanted to be able to share any usb disk really quickly without having to interact in any way with the appliance: this is what I came up with:

CLI constructs and useful info
The purpose of this article is not to be a CLI tutorial, but rather to be an exposition of common constructs used in shell scripting for efficiently achieving a goal. There are also sections which simply help one understand a certain topic.

How to copy files \ directories \ filesystems via network.
The article describes ways of copying content over network.
When upgrading a home server, I copy all the data from the old server to a new system. In the examples below, I work from the new server and both servers are on the same subnet:

Free your space
Sometimes you can find yourself in a situation where you are suddenly faced
with a message telling you that there’s no more free space on your system.
There might be a few things you can do to free some of it.
/tmp directory

KVM and libvirt
With the combination of KVM and libvirt, you have an easy way of creating and managing virtual machines.
According to the official homepage, libvirt is: A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It provides management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage; both local and remote. Since libvirt acts as an intermediate between a hypervisor and client applications, you must have a supported hypervisor insta…

OpenRC
OpenRC is a dependency based service management system. It works with the system provided init program, normally /sbin/init.
Features
OpenRC provides a number of features like hardware initiated initscript run and cgroups support, without requiring large layout changes.

Resizing a QEMU raw image with an NTFS filesystem
This is a quick guide to increasing the disk space available to your Windows virtual machine with an NTFS file system. The example is based on increasing a partition from 5GB to 6GB.
Use qemu-img to resize the QEMU raw disk image

How to search and read Manpages efficiently
Manpages are pages in the online Unix Manual. I hope this Howto can help
some of you to use them more effectively, although I'm aware that many of
the readers are already familiar with this subject.
Searching for a Manpage

Serial Console
Slackware can be installed on various embedded devices. A lot of those don't
have a traditional console, like a monitor and keyboard. Instead, the console
is often routed to the serial port. In order to take advantage of this, some
post-install configuration is necessary.

Setting up a Slackware chroot
There are multiple reasons why you might want to set up a Slackware chroot:
* building 32-bit packages on a 64-bit multilib system
* building -stable packages on a -current system
* building (and testing) packages for SBo on a clean system

Task Scheduling in Linux
Overview
This article discusses some tools used in a Linux system to schedule tasks to run automatically at specified time intervals or at any given point of time in the future. This primer will not cover these commands in-depth; this is just a brief introduction to using these commands. See the individual HOWTOS for each command for an in-depth look at all relevant options and configurations.

Todo Lists in TaskWarrior
Taskwarrior is a
powerful command-line todo list manager which can be installed from
SlackBuilds.org. Please note
that it depends on Lua.
Managing Your Todo List
You can use TaskWarrior in 2 ways:
1. By invoking the Task Shell and issuing TW commands:

(Handy) udev RULES
chmod ttyUSB and ttyACM
(handy for running things like Arduino IDE as a regular user)
1) Create the udev rules file:
as root:
vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-usb.rules and add one of the following
Allow access by everyone (kinda un-safe)